A three-act, three-hour play set in Antarctica? At this point in this particular Chicago winter, it is hard to imagine an onstage prospect with less commercial potential. Even this critic — who had had a day of it Monday, let me tell you — almost feigned a cold.

Steven Dietz's play "Yankee Tavern" is a cleverly self-protected piece of writing, a deconstruction of 9/11 conspiracy theories that also airs a good number of them, ranging from the spike in the short-selling of stock in United and American Airlines on Sept. 10, 2001, to the guy who claimed to...

The National Theatre of Scotland — unusual in that it is a national theater without any physical theater of its own — has been in existence for only nine years. It has already been to simpatico Chicago, by my reckoning, five times. Perchance it is similarities of the climate. "If...

A quick scan of the room at Bric-a-Brac Records in Logan Square reveals a row of action figures from the movie “Alien” (including one with his chest burst open), an old “Simpsons” arcade game that looks either broken or at least unplugged, a glass case full of troll...

When brothers Paolo and Rodrigo Pederneiras and their siblings — who'd studied ballet and contemporary dance as teenagers — decided on dance careers in the mid-'70s, their hometown of Belo Horizonte, in southeastern Brazil, offered few opportunities. So they created their own.

Among Melissa Thodos' accomplishments — beyond guiding her company to its 23rd season, no small feat — is expanding its universe with the American Dance Legacy Project in 2009 and the "New Dances" company showcases in 2000.

The Joffrey Ballet announced Tuesday that it has commissioned a new "Nutcracker" from choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, which will have its world premiere in Chicago in Dec. 2016 as part of the company's 60th anniversary season. Robert Joffrey's American-themed "Nutcracker," which debuted...

NEW YORK — Some three years after its genesis in Chicago and with its huge, original cast intact, director Robert Falls' five-hour epic production of "The Iceman Cometh" is improbably reborn in Brooklyn, propelled into the shabby-chic confines of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's gorgeously...

NEW YORK — Were you to honeymoon in today's Las Vegas, you'd find hip European DJs have replaced crooners and Elvis, and showgirls about as rare on the Strip as a winning hand. But “Honeymoon in Vegas,” the startlingly retro new Broadway musical starring Tony Danza, with music...